Sentences with phrase «of lobster traps»

More important, the second part of my mission was to get pictures of lobster traps for my next Belize Tourism Board article in the reporter.

Another early start let us paddle through perfectly still water, before the boaters and fisherman turned the mirror - like harbor into a ripple of lobster traps and swarming pelicans.

Not exact matches

«I think it'd be weird without the races,» Richard had said on Friday as he pulled a lobster out of a trap in the middle of the Reach.

Technological fixes — including the use of weaker ropes for lobster and crab traps that would allow whales to break free, and electronically controlled traps that don't require lines at all — would be costly and difficult to implement.

Others suggested that the bait used in lobster traps might spur population growth by providing a steady and abundant source of food to juvenile lobsters, who are small enough to escape the traps.

The annual lobster catch in the Gulf of Maine has doubled in the last 10 years, despite intense trapping.

The amount of herring bait used in lobster traps has increased fourfold since 1970.

In a paper published online Dec. 9, 2015, in Marine Mammal Science, a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has for the first time quantified the amount of drag on entangled whales that is created by towing fishing gear, such as rope, buoys, and lobster and crab traps.

«The weighted lobster trap created the most with three times the amount of natural drag on a whale's body.

This finding reaffirms a NOAA Fisheries regulation that mandates the use of sinking line between fishing traps used in the lobster fishery as a way of reducing entanglements.

In the meantime, the people of Belfast go on with their lives, trapping lobsters, canning fish, making doughnuts, teaching school, handling court cases, helping the poor and indigent, staging a local production of Death of a Salesman, celebrating holidays, and trying to make the most of their evenings and weekends.

Due to the nature of the lobster walk, hundreds of lobster would be caught in these heart traps.

It is an example of the commercial lobster trap, a traditional pot introduced around 1921.

They also sometimes move the lobster traps and turn them over, much to the consternation of the fishermen.

While the National Park Service helps keep the islands of Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel a pristine sanctuary for an abundance of marine plant and animal life, waste such as cans, bottles, and lobster traps will occasionally wash ashore from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

As I walked along the back roads and beach side of the island, I found no shortage of slat box style lobster traps and piles of zinc shades.

In terms of dining on the island, perhaps the best treat is a plate of grilled lobster freshly caught in the nearby Belizean lobster traps.

Snorkelling is also used by fishermen to harvest lobster, conch and other marine products in relatively shallow areas of up to 50 feet of water depth where they can spot their traps or targets from the surface, and then free dive for retrieval.

«This is a lobster trap,» Martinez said in his Bed - Stuy studio, pointing out various elements in a series of modest sculptures.

Calder is commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to make Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a mobile he installs in the principal stairwell of the museum's new building on West Fifty - third Street.

Soon after, Calder received commissions to make both Mercury Fountain for the Spanish Pavilion at the Parisian World Fair (a work that symbolized Spanish Republican resistance to fascism) and Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a sizable mobile installed in the main stairwell of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The impetus for the exhibition is a painting by Beal that was acquired in 2014 with funds raised by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art, titled After the Storm, from c. 1930, in which lobster fishermen scour the shore for traps and buoys that have been scattered by a gale.